... but the "American" Kramers can be found cheap as hell if you have patience.

The late 80s (86-90) American Series (Stagemaster, ProAxe & Showster) Kramers were the most innovative guitar designs which later were copied by nearly all of the manufacturers of FR equipped guitars. The early 80s Kramers were more traditional design with basic Strat-like bodies. You can find great deals on 80s Kramers on ebay and CL.

Well this thread has been dead for a while so lets try and liven it up a bit. I recently got a hold of some up close pictures through the Kramer Forum of Ed's Kramer 5150. This is not a replica but the actual guitar.
Anyways, the pictures.....

From the information I've received the guitar now has a different pickup then it did back in the 80's and has had that specific pickup for about 10 years now apparently.

Back in the day....

...and how it is now

Here's a nice close up of the broken headstock, the repair job done by Music Man and the extra tuner added so Ed could use it in the mean time. You can also see the remains of the Music Man sticker that was put over the Kramer logo when Ed signed with them back in the early 90's.

This is a sad picture. In 2004 Ed used this guitar on their tour a few times and added a Charvel neck with a striped fingerboard not only that but to make the neck fit on the body they had to resize/make the neck pocket bigger thus changing the body forever that the original neck will no longer fit. Ahh drunken Ed and his dumb ideas

Awesome!

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